Cooperation with Singapore through Eureka Globastars
© 2020 Eureka Globastars
EUREKA (www.eurekanetwork.org) is an intergovernmental organisation for market-driven industrial research and development. It is a decentralised network facilitating the coordination of national funding on Research, Development and Innovation, aiming to boost the productivity & competitiveness of industries.
Within the GlobalStars initiative of EUREKA, based on mutual consent, Singapore, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Estonia, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the UK are launching a common call. Participants from Singapore and the respective EUREKA member countries are invited to submit joint project proposals in the research and development of innovative products and applications with a strong market potential. The call for proposals will be an open call inviting projects from any sector area.
Deadline: 15 Oct 2020
Submission and assessment process
Stage 1: EUREKA application: All partners must complete the EUREKA project application form online at eureka.smartsimple.ie. It must be completed online by 17:00pm Central European Summer Time on15 October 2020. The form must be completed in English.
The project consortium is strongly advised to read the form carefully, follow the guidelines and complete all necessary elements in the form as requested. User guidance for the application tool is available under “Related documents”.
Stage 2: National applications: In parallel to the submission of the EUREKA project application form, all project partners are required to submit a related national funding application, if required, to their respective funding agencies, taking into account all relevant procedures and submission rules. Deadline for submission might differ between the participating funding agencies, see below for detailed information for each funding agency.
Stage 3: International and national evaluation: All applications are assessed against the eligibility criteria of the call before being put forward for the national assessments according to the national evaluation criteria. Successful projects are put forward for a EUREKA label. After a common list of labelled and non-labelled projects has been agreed, applicants will be informed about the results.
Stage 4: National funding decision: Funding will only be provided to labelled projects that are positively evaluated by all participating funding agencies, taking the common ranking list into account. Funding of project partners is subjected to budgetary availability and national funding conditions stipulated by each funding body.
Evaluation
Applications will be evaluated nationally. The basis for the national evaluation is the general EUREKA eligibility criteria, national eligibility criteria and evaluations, the EUREKA application form and if required a national application form.
A multilateral consensus meeting between all involved national funding bodies (NFBs) will agree which projects to approve based on the assessors’ scores, using the EUREKA Network projects evaluation methodology (see Section 8). After a common list of funded and non- funded projects has been agreed the national funding bodies and EUREKA Association will inform the applicants about the results.
Swiss participants
Only consortia consisting of at least 1 Swiss company and 1 Swiss University or Research Organisation, sharing the project costs 50:50 can apply for funding. Academic partners are funded 100%. Companies self-fund their participation and pay 10% of the funding contribution to the Swiss Research Organisation. In return they are entitled to non-exclusively exploit the project results in their business domain.
The following costs are eligible: Salaries, consumables, international travel, equipment depreciation. Swiss universities are funded 100%, Swiss companies self-fund their participation. A self-funded participation of Swiss companies without participation of a funded Research Organisation is possible.
In addition to the centrally submitted EUREKA Project Application Form and Annex, a national funding application: https://www.innosuisse.ch/inno/en/home/start-your-innovation-project/innovationsprojekte.html has to be submitted through the Analytics application.
Prior to the submission of the application forms, relevant project partners are invited to contact Innosuisse for a pre-check of their project ideas.
All information on Call scope and country rules are listed in detail in the Call document EUREKA Globalstars Singapore.
Innosuisse has secured the support their EEN office for partner searches and prepared a virtual platform.
Call calendar:
- International opening of the Call: June 8, 2020
- Deadline for EUREKA and national Applications: October 15, 2020
- EUREKA label procedure and approval: January 2021
More information:
Contacts:
Singapore: Enterprise Singapore
Mr Navjeev Singh, Development Partner, Global Innovation Network
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +65 62793618
Switzerland: Innosuisse
Ms. Colette John-Grant, EUREKA National project coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +41 58 466 77 32
Sources:
https://www.innosuisse.ch/inno/en/home/go-global/bilateral-cooperation/singapore.html